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Ideology
History is constructed. The leader’s legacy is not retrospective. We build it daily, so we’d better test it.
I previously wrote about company cultures having a glue, The One Global Culture does not exist. But pretending that it […]
‘Democratic organization’ means well, but it is an unfortunate term.
With the best of intentions, to call an organization a Democracy is an abuse of the term, unless of course, […]
Reclaiming a concept that has lost weight in the business organization: vocation
Vocation is often defined as ‘a strong feeling’ to do something, a job, a career, an occupation, to dedicate one’s […]
Stay in beta
The traditional organization is, amongst other things, obsessed with closure. It despises ambiguity and puts a premium on the absolute […]
His greatest success was not to fail
Many people, many of them in high managerial positions, succeed by avoiding failure. They become unmemorable by design. A new […]
For every problem, the Victorians had a building
A few years ago, the BBC broadcast a series called ‘How we built Britain’, presented by the veteran David Dimbleby. […]
For leadership, look around, not in research papers
Leadership has traditional sources of learning, reflection, role modelling and a ‘body of knowledge’. There are four that dominate. This […]
‘Social Change’ is no longer alien to Executive and Leadership Development. These are social and ‘at scale’ or are not fit for this century.
Communicating, triggering behaviours, sustaining them and creating a culture, are all connected, interdependent, overlapping and parts of the chain of […]
The missing word in the famous Margaret Mead quote
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that […]
‘Forget what they say, observe what they do’. The ‘uniqueness paradox’ revisited. A bit.
Some people in organizations believe that they are working in a very bureaucratic, hierarchical, political and rigid environment. Many of […]
Joining a cause’, vs. ‘being employed’. Can you articulate the reason for your enterprise?
From time to time you see the occasional and mostly not very solid comparisons between ‘the company’ and a religion. […]
Employee Engagement as morally imperative. (6/7) A forgotten model?
Here is a ‘very novel’ concept. Employee Engagement is needed because… it’s good in and of itself. Because work enhances […]
There must be a better way (I have good news)
There must be a better way than having 200 consultants landing in my company and doing the stuff for me, […]
The Daily Me, information bubbles, and keeping sane
Something for the weekend. Written back in 2017 but still rings true today! We naturally retreat to comfort zones. If […]
Polarity is the new slavery. We need new Abolition Laws.
On one side, taxes are good, big government, social welfare, fighting for social justice and social mobility, human rights, women […]
Catastrophic success (may even have a celebration party)
I was used to the concept of catastrophic failure, but not catastrophic success, until I read an article in the […]
“Sometimes a majority simply means that all the fools are on the same side.”
As with many modern clever quotes, there is more than one author claiming this. Symptoms of potentially ‘all fools in […]
‘Labor omnia vincit’. So let’s get back to ‘it’, with a good pair of glasses.
‘Work conquers all’, or ‘steady work overcomes all things’ Virgil dixit. For many, the time of post-break is approaching, if […]
Organizations wired wrong (and 5 of 5): If you want ‘One Company’ surely it’s because you don’t have one. The more you push it, the more it will slip away.
No medium to large size company has a single culture. No medium to large size French, or British or American […]
6 types of employees I want (2 of 2): synthesizers, designers and re-inventors of wheels
I shared yesterday three types of employees I want for the modern organization. Different characters on the payroll. If there […]
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